Author(s): Louise Doughty

Fiction.

"Elijah Smith was born in the graveyard of the church in Werrington, a village in the Soke of Peterborough. I can tell you this for certain, as I am his mother and so was there at the time." So begins the story of Clementina Smith, a young girl when she gives birth to her illegitimate son, Elijah. Others have been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stick by her and Elijah grows up greatly loved by his small but tight-knit family. But then he meets a non-Romany girl